Unit 6 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. water evaporates and leaves behind a salty crust on the top layers of soil
  2. 4. Widespread food shortage and mass starvation
  3. 8. transferring genes to improve crops
  4. 11. deficiency of nutrients
  5. 12. Natural or synthetic substances that kill or control the organism that people consider pests
  6. 16. Low input, polyculture and more manual labor farming
  7. 17. Loss of arable land due to human developments like urbanization, overgrazing, etc.
  8. 18. Conversion of productive arable land to desert created by over-cultivation and over-grazing
Down
  1. 1. Less efficient than plant agriculture
  2. 3. Not getting a balanced diet
  3. 5. planting different crops in the same field from year to year
  4. 6. Commercially harvestable population in a particular region
  5. 7. Main obstacle of obtaining a healthy diet
  6. 9. When people do not have adequate access to food for all or part of the year
  7. 10. Replaces lost organic matter and nutrients in soil
  8. 13. designed to minimize the pesticide input in a more environmentally sensitive approach
  9. 14. High input, high yield and monoculture farming
  10. 15. High density farming
  11. 19. Land available for farming